HMS Orion (1910)
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| Career |  |
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| Name: | HMS Orion |
| Laid down: | 29 November 1909 |
| Launched: | 20 August 1910 |
| Commissioned: | January 1912 |
| Decommissioned: | 1922 |
| Struck: | 1922 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Orion class battleship |
| Displacement: |
22,000 LT (22,000 MT) standard |
| Length: | 581 ft (177 m) |
| Beam: | 88 ft 7 in (27.0 m) |
| Draught: | 24 ft 6 in (7.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines, 18 boilers, 4 shafts, 27,000 hp (20 MW) |
| Speed: | 21 kn (39 km/h) |
| Complement: | 750–1,100 |
| Armament: | 10 x 13.5 in (340 mm) guns, 16 x 4 in (100 mm) guns, 3 x 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (submerged) |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Orion.
HMS Orion was a battleship of the Royal Navy, launched in 1910, the lead ship of her class and the first "super-dreadnought".
[edit] World War I
In World War I Orion served in the 2nd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow and fought at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, suffering no damage. Orion was the first battleship of the Royal Navy to adopt the superfiring turret layout pioneered by the US Navy in the South Carolina class battleships.
As a result of the Washington Naval Treaty she was decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1922.
[edit] Further reading
- (1912) "Chapter 5", in Arthur Mee: Harmsworth Popular Science. Amalgamated Press, 576 to 597.
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